Fake champion

Nancy Kelley says look look it’s all been proven look for yourself.

https://twitter.com/Nancy_M_K/status/1508059878077698049

So I’m reading. First item: the title, subtitle, and first sentence all carefully obfuscate the issue in the way the obedient media outlets always do.

Title: Critics accuse trans swimming star

But the issue isn’t “trans” it’s man. He has an unfair advantage because he’s a man competing against women.

Subhead: The NCAA champion has sparked controversy and become a hate figure among conservatives, but statistics show little evidence that she performed any differently to other women, Io Dodds reports

That one’s a whole list of obfuscations. He became a “champion” by competing against women. He didn’t randomly become “a hate figure”: he cheated women out of their chances to be champions. We’re very far from all conservatives – most of us are fiercely feminist. “She” is a he. Women aren’t “other women” in relation to him, because he’s not a woman. Io Dodds is a trans woman, i.e. a man. He “came out” as a transwoman in June last year.

First sentence: In 17 March, Lia Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win America’s top trophy in university sports when she swam to victory in the women’s 500 yard (457 meter) freestyle race. Yet again the sly “transgender athlete.” The point is that he’s a trans woman i.e. a man. He has the body of a man.

Now for the rest of the article.

Her right to compete in women’s races, and sometimes her gender itself, has been attacked by sports stars, politicians, activists, her competitors, and even some of her teammates’ parents, as well as protesters at the NCAA championship last week, who argued that her time living as a man gives her an unfair advantage.

No, not his “time living as a man” ffs, his male body.

After that it’s a few thousand words of strenuous special pleading which seems to boil down to “she didn’t get the highest score ever therefore it was totally fair.”

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